View it from the mountain

After the freezing Icelandic waters of The Deep, Baltasar Kormákur takes his epic saga of survival to the very top with Everest, a nuts-and-bolts reconstruction of Rob Hall’s 1996 expedition that met with disaster when a storm struck while the mountaineers were still descending. With an all-star cast and a carefully navigated script, Everest unpicks the highs and lows of the crew’s adventure in glorious 3D, but despite some criticism of the free-for-all at the summit doesn’t quite make a tragedy out of catastrophe.